It is honest, or she must believe it is so. Because he's right, she doesn't know anything about where she is, how these people operate. Fingers curling into themselves. Less scared, more weighing him in particular now.

"Then, I commit myself to your keeping, and you alone, and I ask for protection." She swallows. She cannot say how it works, but she has that he had been honest with her so far, and for now it would have to do.